A major complaint about Google's Chrome web browser has been that so far, it is still not available on anything other than Windows. Google promised to deliver Chrome to Mac OS X and Linux as well, but as it turns out, this is a little harder than they anticipated, Ben Goodger, Google's Chrome interface lead, has explained in an email. It has also been revealed what toolkit the Linux version of Chrome will use: Gtk+.

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There has got to be *some* reason companies were willing to pay thousands of dollars PER DEVELOPER for Qt licenses
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Why do you think a few thousand dollars for development tools is expensive when a software vendor will spend hundreds of thousands on salaries, office space, equipment and hardware - and those aren't even the tools they'll be using to make the very thing (software) that will put food on their table?!

You basement programmers feeding yourselves via the licenses from some hypothetical shareware application that no one pays for make me laugh my ass off every time. It's one of the reasons why I loiter on here really :-).

Confer with your own QT advocates and try to come up with a consistent argument.

The argument is the same. Why has KDE 4 got resolution independence and has moved on in the way it has and other open source desktops haven't? Given that we have so many brilliant cross-platform tools that allow you to develop for nothing according to people around here, why would Trolltech have been in business as an independent company for such a long time? I mean, what idiots actually pay for development tools? ROTFL.